Here I Throw Down My Heart

Zusatztext

The poems in<i>Here I Throw Down My Heart</i> prompt readers to see beyond the surface of images, whether that surface is a uniform, a prescribed setting, a familiar geography, or the surface that evokes the most social commentary, skin—the body itself. The modern world moves at a greater speed than the world of a few generations ago, so we look for ways to sort our likes and dislikes, to set our comfort zones. These poems say:"don't believe everything you see, look again." The poems look at how borders between countries, or between genders and class have deepened the lines between the haves and have-nots. While everyone is on a collision course for lack of food and water, those dividing lines seem more impenetrable than ever, underscoring the disparity between gender, race, and class.

Autorenportrait

<b>Colleen J. McElroy</b> is professor emeritus of English and creative writing at the University of Washington. She is the former editor in chief of the literary magazine<i>Seattle Review</i> and has published nine poetry collections, most recently<i>Sleeping with the Moon,</i> for which she received a 2008 PEN/Oakland National Literary Award. Her latest collections of creative nonfiction include<i>A Long Way from St. Louie</i> and<i>Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar,</i> which was a finalist in the 2000 PEN USA Research-based Creative Nonfiction category. She has received the Before Columbus American Book Award, two Fulbright Research Fellowships, two NEA Fellowships (in both fiction and poetry), a DuPont Visiting Scholar Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Fellowship.

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